Cathedral Piper
Two of the bosses in the nave ceiling of St Andrew’s Cathedral in Glasgow depict a piper among some leaves, such as this one.
(- Lawrence OP)
Krakowski tramwaj w dniu pogrzebu Wisławy Szymborskiej.
"Jan Sobieski, the Polish monarch who came to the rescue of Vienna in 1683 and who was key in defeating the Ottoman Turks, is a revered figure in the Western European psyche. Another very important feature in our history is of course the refusal of the Ottoman Turks to accept the partition of Poland in 1790. From 1790 until the end of World War I the various Ottoman Sultans never accepted Poland’s partition. The Ottoman refusal was manifested in the following way: During the annual reception for foreign ambassadors at the Ottoman Court the court officials would ask loudly “where is the Polish ambassador?” in front of all ambassadors. The reply from Ottoman bureaucrats would be that the Polish ambassador “was on his way but is late because of adverse road conditions."
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SUAT KINIKLIOĞLU
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Today, in my design history lecture we talked about these famous Finnish “futuro homes” from the 1960s, and I started freaking out because I remembered there was one out at Pensacola beach. I probably drove past it a million times and never knew it was a big deal, but apparently they’re pretty rare to find today, especially in the United States.
